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on today's show Hugo bye-bye BBM gets a cross-platform a landing page Nintendo's 2d s final fantasy 14 a realm not quite yet reborn and what to expect at apple's iphone event it's Buffalo bullets in time hello shiny happy people and welcome to the Buffalo bulletin where we recapped five major stories from our site technobuffalo calm a couple of times a week if you're interested in reading more about any story we talked about on the show check the description for links or click on the graphics for each story if you have annotations available I'm Ashley skava hair your top stories Google's president of product management for Android the delightful Hugo Barra is leaving Google to take a position with Chinese handset manufacturer shall me he'll still be dealing with the Android ecosystem just from an OEM side but it remains to be seen who might step into his role at El goob regardless of what his reasons were for leaving borrow was a great on stage presence at Google i/o so he will certainly be missed up in Mountain View blackberry launched the landing page for their upcoming android and iphone versions of blackberry messenger BBM is widely regarded as one of the best and most stable messaging platforms out there so the announcement the service would go cross-platform was a pleasant surprise for everybody cross platform BBM will only feature messaging though at launch so video voice are expected to roll out sometime later this year my question is are you gonna use BBM Android and iPhone users because I don't know if I'm on board yet somebody convinced in gaming Nintendo continued its streak of wacky wondrous weird creations with the surprise announcement of the Nintendo 2ds yes the 2ds basically a 3ds with the 3d toggled off and without the clamshell functionality looks totally bizarre but with a price tag of just 129 bucks a shared release date with pokemon X&Y and a marketing strategy aimed at young kids Nintendo actually might have a hit on its hands all I'm saying is stranger things have happened Square Enix is having a really tough week as the birth of their remade MMO final fantasy 14 a realm reborn seems like it might have needed an emergency c-section femurs could not login across the country causing Square Enix to completely stop digital sales until the servers could be brought up to speed all realm reborn might be an apology to everyone who plays the original Final Fantasy 14 but it's not a really good apology especially for anybody who is burned by the first iteration of the game our wild card for the week comes from Todd Hazleton who reminds us that the Apple 5s event is likely slated for September 10th and he runs through what we should and should not expect from the folks up in Cupertino we've got galleries and run down to both the rumored iphone 5s and the iphone 5c so if you're interested in that sort of thing head on over and check them out that's the Buffalo bulletin for today if you enjoyed the show a thumbs up be super awesome of you and if you want more great TechnoBuffalo video content please subscribe to our YouTube channel by clicking this giant subscribe button and remember you can have your cake and eat it too otherwise you'll just have some moldy cake of your sitting around don't be wasteful see you next time